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General Assembly is a technical education provider that teaches students the skills, career advice and networking opportunities needed to make a career change into a tech role, in as little as three months. General Assembly offers part-time and full-time bootcamps and short courses in web and mobile development, product management, data science, and more. The bootcamp experience is led by instructors who are expert practitioners in their field. Students should expect to build a solid portfolio of real-life projects. Since 2011, General Assembly has graduated more than 40,000 students worldwide from the full time and part time bootcamp.
To enroll at General Assembly, applicants should submit an online application to connect with a GA Admissions team member who will work with them to decide if a tech bootcamps is the right fit. The GA Admissions staff are also prepared to speak with applicants about the best tech role for them, learning styles at GA, expected outcomes after the bootcamp, options to finance the bootcamp, career services offered by GA, and more.
To help students land their first job in a tech role, General Assembly students are supported by career coaches from day one. The program is enhanced by a career services team that is constantly in talks with employers about their tech hiring needs.
I do not recomend anyone to take any immersive bootcamp with no knowleadge. Honestly, this kind of knowleadge requires a lot of repetition and practice. My advise is do as follows:
1) learn Fast Typing. If you don't know how to type fast, a good free website is www.Typingclub.com It is veeeery important to keep your attention on the screen when coding, rateher that shifting your attention to the keyboard.
2)Finish ALL of the folowing free websites certifications:
...I do not recomend anyone to take any immersive bootcamp with no knowleadge. Honestly, this kind of knowleadge requires a lot of repetition and practice. My advise is do as follows:
1) learn Fast Typing. If you don't know how to type fast, a good free website is www.Typingclub.com It is veeeery important to keep your attention on the screen when coding, rateher that shifting your attention to the keyboard.
2)Finish ALL of the folowing free websites certifications:
a)All of the certificates of www.freecodecamp.com.
b)After finished with freecodecamp, then start from scratch and do all of the tutorials at www.codeschool.com . Yes, do the same thing you did on the previous website, AGAIN; take the Javascript course as if it was the first time you have ever seen Javascript; be patient, it may seem repetitive and tedious at first, but it is worth it, it is practice. Remember the baseball players have to practice easy throws for many hours beforfe being able to perform good in a MLB game. Finish all free courses in the following order: HTML/CSS, Javascript, JQuery, comand line, RubyOnRails, learnGIT.
c) My recomendation is to even take all the free courses on www.codecademy.com as well; Yes, all of the from scratch. why? at that point you should be ablke to just fly through all the excescises and lessons and finish thye entire body of lessons in a matter of a week. On every website you will find a new piece of information that was not covered by the others.
* it would be even a good ide if you are spending over $10,000 in a bootcamp to pay for a $20 membership at one of those site to get opremium access to other lessons that will prepare you even better. Trust me, payin extra $20 for a couple of months will make you take a really good advantage when you start you $10k bootcamp.
3) Then, and ONLY THEN, enroll in a 3-month on-site intensive immersive bootcamp.
4) Most likely, the school will require for you to work on a pre-course project to get you up to speed by the time the actual bootcamp starts. you should be able to finish the pre-course assigments in half the time of the other students. Normally that is a 40-hours period you must dedicate to finish the pre-requisite before starting class. If there is a waiting list and you can;t start right away, keep practicing on sites such as www.codewars.com. Also learn how to work with the developers tools such as the inspector from google and mozila; codeschool.com has a really good tutorial on their website for that.
Now let me warn you: what you learn in all the self teaching tutorials form those websites, is JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG. By no means are you prepared to apply for any jobs. It requires A LOT of practice. While in school, make sure to prepare really good portfolio quality projects, that's why it is important you come already knowing the basics of coding on each topic by finishing those tutorials. It is hard, it is not easy, but if you come prepared to the bootcamp by finishing all the free online tutorial from those websites, it will be a very pleasurable and rewarding experience, otherwise it will be very VERY frustrating.
So, plan yourself for 3 months preparing for the 3-4 months long bootcamp to really be able to learn what you need to learn to start a carreer as a developer.
This program was a major financial setback. The price you pay does not match the quality you pay for. There is no set curriculum for each class, I've sat in on an instructor meeting and they typically create it 2-3 weeks before the class launch. This causes a lot of unexpected errors to go in class and makes the whole experience lackluster.
A lot of the instructors are past students who "know" the curriculum enough to teach it. The presentation of core concepts and fundaments wa...
This program was a major financial setback. The price you pay does not match the quality you pay for. There is no set curriculum for each class, I've sat in on an instructor meeting and they typically create it 2-3 weeks before the class launch. This causes a lot of unexpected errors to go in class and makes the whole experience lackluster.
A lot of the instructors are past students who "know" the curriculum enough to teach it. The presentation of core concepts and fundaments was random. I did not feel like each class connected nor did I feel like my skills were developing throughout the 12 weeks.
This did not feel like a classroom but more of a "hangout" spot. GA does a good job dressing up their facilities and portraying their environment as "trendy/hip/techy". Although I did build good relationships with the people around me. Mostly because we all had common feelings about how GA was a waste of time.
There were happy hours and hot UX/UI girls walking around all the time, but that's pretty much it.
You're giving a lot of false hope about becoming a developer from 12 weeks of irrelevant training. The saddest day for me was our Demo Day (graduation day) - there was so much promise of this being the big day for students to present to potential employers. Nope not even one, it was all students.. parents.. instructors.. That point I knew I had took a huge financial burden, yielding nothing but bits and pieces of knowledge.
While I was applying to jobs I was laughed at by every employer. I was not prepared to handle the truth. It took me time to actually develop some skill, but that was all on my own from using resources like udemy/treehouse/lynda.
This is my honest experience at GA, you guys are just another venture backed start up racking up the dollars from the rest of the world.
General Assembly was my introduction to a coding boot camp and into web development. I attended and completed their full stack web dev program. The costs were high and I commuted to DC everyday because I was commited. I stayed late after class to work on projects with groups or sometimes alone, got and pestered instructors for help, but at the end of the course, yes I know so much more but I felt it was not enough.
I would say only 25% of the students were capab...
General Assembly was my introduction to a coding boot camp and into web development. I attended and completed their full stack web dev program. The costs were high and I commuted to DC everyday because I was commited. I stayed late after class to work on projects with groups or sometimes alone, got and pestered instructors for help, but at the end of the course, yes I know so much more but I felt it was not enough.
I would say only 25% of the students were capable of what the course had advertised and the rest of the 75% that were left, most of them were just as commited and dedicated but just didn't get certain subjects nor gain the proficiency to do it well. If you were in the 25% great but if you were not, then you were SOL, there is no free repeat and the help you needed were hard to find during the course.
I would attend somewhere else as the amount of time you just commited is not something you will get back.
To pad General Assembly's hiring statistics after you finish your immersive program, GA employs it's newly "educated" students to join the GA team as an Instructional Associate.
After a three month drilling of a broad scope of knowledge, you're now going to be explaining your half-assed education to a new cohort of optimistic students. You are not going to learn the skillset of a Data Scientist in three short months. You'll have an idea of what it mean to be a Data Scientist, bu...
To pad General Assembly's hiring statistics after you finish your immersive program, GA employs it's newly "educated" students to join the GA team as an Instructional Associate.
After a three month drilling of a broad scope of knowledge, you're now going to be explaining your half-assed education to a new cohort of optimistic students. You are not going to learn the skillset of a Data Scientist in three short months. You'll have an idea of what it mean to be a Data Scientist, but you will be nowhere close to being a valued asset of any analytics team.
Had I know of the GA shenanigans before I joined and finished DSI at the San Francisco Campus, I would have saved my time, money, and sanity and would have continued to grow the traditional way. Instead, a boot camp is nothing but false promises and overly idealistic beliefs. Don't make the same mistake.
I took the Digital Marketing Circuit online and the course fell way below expectations. As background, I came into the course with very little marketing experience or knowledge (I'm looking to pivot away from my existing, non-marketing profession), however, I am very familiar with the online learning landscape and have taken a variety of online courses through my undergraduate and graduate careers, as well as through MOOCs like Coursera and Lynda. Here's a list of my pros and cons:
...I took the Digital Marketing Circuit online and the course fell way below expectations. As background, I came into the course with very little marketing experience or knowledge (I'm looking to pivot away from my existing, non-marketing profession), however, I am very familiar with the online learning landscape and have taken a variety of online courses through my undergraduate and graduate careers, as well as through MOOCs like Coursera and Lynda. Here's a list of my pros and cons:
Pros:
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Overall, I felt like this was a beta version of a course packaged as a high-gloss, cutting edge but tested program that would provide participants not only with immediately portable skills and knowledge but also true portfolio material. In many ways, it feels like a cheap money maker. I was told by a mentor that the course was put online recently. Having a bit of background in online education I know that you cannot simply translate existing material for live courses into online settings and expect the same functionality. Truly, though, my impression upon completing the course was that this was a low-cost way for General Assembly to expand their base of customers. Very little thought seems to been given to what online students would walk away with. The actual value proposition is low. You basically work independently, receive minimal feedback (which is entirely dependent upon the questions you ask), walk away with no reference materials apart from the notes you take, and have a pretty useless "portfolio" project that looks like worksheets from high school (sure, it may help you think through things but it is not going to impress anyone). In essence, you can acquire nearly as much, if not exactly as much, from Lynda. For $750, the return on investment is low. I really wanted to like this program. Sadly, I cannot recommend that anyone else enroll.
Besides clearly removing negative reviews that members of my DSI cohort has written, General Assembly is the reincarnation of the likes of Devry and ITT Tech.
First Warning Sign: Applying and Interviewing
An absolute and utter joke for an incredible math heavy and technical course.
Second Warning Sign: Instructors
Quick to doubt and even quicker to shrug off. Students are not treated with respect. When youre paying an exorbitant $16,000 for a 12 w...
Besides clearly removing negative reviews that members of my DSI cohort has written, General Assembly is the reincarnation of the likes of Devry and ITT Tech.
First Warning Sign: Applying and Interviewing
An absolute and utter joke for an incredible math heavy and technical course.
Second Warning Sign: Instructors
Quick to doubt and even quicker to shrug off. Students are not treated with respect. When youre paying an exorbitant $16,000 for a 12 week-course, you should get any assistance and help you desire. That is not the case at GA.
Final Warning Sign: Outcomes Team
Individuals who have never held a technicial position as a data analyst or data scientist are advising how, where, and why you should be applying to certain positions.
I cannot reccommend GA to absolutely anyone. If you need a rundown on how to operate a business based on false promises and false statistics, you've found the right place. There are much better and more affordable options than wasting your precious time and money at General Assembly.
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I'm in a new bootcamp, an ACTUAL bootcamp because I actually feel the pressure and in a good way. The people are encouraging and MOST importantly the technology is new and in demand.
I found a lot of discouragement for new approaches, and the reasons were justified with "oh its just bad practice and not used in the industry" what lies. The current and certainly much more reputed bootcamp teaches the exact opposite.
There&...
**You want to read this!
I'm in a new bootcamp, an ACTUAL bootcamp because I actually feel the pressure and in a good way. The people are encouraging and MOST importantly the technology is new and in demand.
I found a lot of discouragement for new approaches, and the reasons were justified with "oh its just bad practice and not used in the industry" what lies. The current and certainly much more reputed bootcamp teaches the exact opposite.
There's nothing special in getting into GA, trust me there isn't, no offense to my classmates but some of them didn't know what "var" in JavaScript meant, and they managed to get in.
Towards the latter half, I constantly showed up an hour/maybe more late because i spent the equivalent time learning things that actually will make a difference to my job search (node,angular,react) - lets say i bought 18 courses on Udemy during my time at GA.
I'm angered by how the course,teaching and environment is fostered compared to my present bootcamp. Turns out i'm not the only one who came to this bootcamp after GA because they didn't feel confident enough!
You will get a job after GA, because the market is just that desperate. Most of the "projects" are you just following some tutorial and show casing it at the end hahaha! All the best getting support if you're trying to do something different!
If u complete codecademy/codeschool you've pretty much done about the first 6 weeks of the course, it gets tricky once back end begins, but then again if i reflect it was "made" hard, it really wasn't that difficult what we did. Yes, relational DB's are difficult for anyone who looks at it the first time but, not impossible.
I spent most of my time playing catchup , typing code blindly because the instructor was typing fast. So i decided to just listen after some time, and guess what - you're told what to do, not why.
You learn about "data structures" well touch on in, in the last week, they make it seem like some super hard difficult thing. It's not, it's linked lists,hash maps are tougher. Data structures are fun, not difficult and they're SO important in becoming a great developer.
You strive for greatness? don't do GA, its a waste of time, get serious and join some of the other top end bootcamps.
End of it, 80% of my cohort got jobs, that doesn't mean GA was good hahaha no way, it was WEAK in it's curriculum, the market is desperate as I said. While people at GA thrive to make todo lists, which we did haha, other bootcamps warm up with todo lists.
If u have experience with backend/LAMP stack and you're finding GA hard, i would suggest you re-evaluate your career choices (i'm never discouraging,not once in my life have i spoken negative about someone, but my distaste for this place grows each day i progress with my current bootcamp)
Want to hear a funny thing, we had our meet and greet, i met up with a recruiter, he called me and this is what he had to say "other than you and 1-2 others, I doubt anyone will get a job because they just don't have the skills". Let it be said that 80% got jobs, so the recruiters prediction didn't work, but you get what I mean, MARKET wants, you learn bare minimum.
TL;DR GA -> 0 to 40 , you may get a job based on your market, but you won't learn anything useful
For those who have a year or two of software development experience but are having a difficult time making that career leap, GA might be a great resource for you. For others with little to no tech experience, GA is probably not the answer. The problem with the curriculum is they move to fast for someone who is trying to start out in this field. One doesn't have the time or resources to figure something out before they quickly move you onto the next thing.
The commun...
For those who have a year or two of software development experience but are having a difficult time making that career leap, GA might be a great resource for you. For others with little to no tech experience, GA is probably not the answer. The problem with the curriculum is they move to fast for someone who is trying to start out in this field. One doesn't have the time or resources to figure something out before they quickly move you onto the next thing.
The community is good and if you're in the bootcamp program, there is a good amount of attention you get form engineers and teachers who are willing to help you. Albeit that is not to say you will struggle and feel like things are being thrown at you too fast without being able to understand the micro details, which is essential to the coding process.
The classes that are offered outside of the bootcamp, like the part-time front end class will be a headache if you are trying to actually make a career change. You don't get the resources or help you need to make that leap. The TA's have little to no teaching experience and are just starting out in the field as developers.
The problem with GA is they will take on anyone who has the willingness to learn, but do a poor job of delineating those who already have a good amount of experience, and those who have none whatsoever. They will simply take on anyone because they want their business to prosper. This presents a huge problem, as I see plenty of grads from the bootcamp who are unemployed and struggling because they don't have the tools necessary to become software developers.
My best recommendation would be to avoid the part-time classes, and if you have a couple years experience and know your stuff but are having trouble making the career leap, GA would probably be a good bet for you. If you have no coding experience, try Treehouse or get mentorship, and a couple years down the line try out the bootcamp.
Part-time class in SF learning the fundamentals of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The class focused largely on JavaScript and culminated in individual projects.
For me, General Assembly was an experience about which I have mixed feelings. Doing an immersive course with little experience and sitting next to people with vast amounts of experience with code was a nightmare. The curriculum cannot adapt to such a disparity of knowledge, and for the amount of money you pay this is not good enough.
The instructors were great, encouraging those with little knowledge to keep trying, but it quickly became overwhelming. The atmosphere was mos...
For me, General Assembly was an experience about which I have mixed feelings. Doing an immersive course with little experience and sitting next to people with vast amounts of experience with code was a nightmare. The curriculum cannot adapt to such a disparity of knowledge, and for the amount of money you pay this is not good enough.
The instructors were great, encouraging those with little knowledge to keep trying, but it quickly became overwhelming. The atmosphere was mostly convival with drinks and snacks to end the week, but - and this is probably indicative of the tech industry as a whole - GA seemed to be obssessed with youth. From their marketing to success stories, the age of those graduates was always heavily underscored.
My advice? Have HTML/CSS/Javascript down to an intermediate level. The pre course materials won't prepare you enough for how quickly and deeply you dive in once you begin studying. Alternatively, do a part-time course instead and build your knowledge over a longer period, this will allow more time to process and practice the skills you learn.
The WDI experience varies from class to class largely depending on the teachers. There is no standard curriculum across WDI classes, they are put together by the teachers of that class. So people from one WDI class learn things a person from another WDI might not not. There is also no standard pre-work, this too is put together by the teachers for their class. Seeing how this varies from classes in one location, I can only imagine the difference compared to several locations.
Cre...
The WDI experience varies from class to class largely depending on the teachers. There is no standard curriculum across WDI classes, they are put together by the teachers of that class. So people from one WDI class learn things a person from another WDI might not not. There is also no standard pre-work, this too is put together by the teachers for their class. Seeing how this varies from classes in one location, I can only imagine the difference compared to several locations.
Credit the folks at GA for being very quick to make adjustments based on the student feedback. It’s great to know they do listen to the feedback, and are constantly making adjustments, but it doesn’t change what you’ve missed out on.
GA is fitting so much into 3 months, there is so much taught at a very quick pace, some things are squeezed in so while “covered” it’s not really a learning experience.
The overall WDI learning experience also depends on if you’re starting with prior experience with at least one or two languages. The pre-work was not adequate preparation for the class if you were starting with no experience. Before starting WDI, it would be best to spend a couple of months at least becoming familiar with JS and Ruby, you will be setting yourself up for a much better learning experience. If you need extra assistance/time with a teacher you’re out of luck, this was not something available to students.
They have some terrific teachers and several not so terrific teachers. People can be highly qualified skill-wise but this doesn’t necessarily make them a good teacher. Additionally, they have many teachers who are only recently out of their WDI program. Like most learning situations, the teacher has a big impact on the learning experience. When you need to learn in 3 months, and don't get a do-over, it's a big drawback to have a not-so-good teacher for the 3 months.
WDI is a grueling program that can be truly amazing and rewarding if you’re lucky to have quality teachers. It’s a very comfortable environment, which is important since you’re there from morning to evening. Their emphasis on “community” is great. If you’re not starting with a good amount of prior experience you will need to be fully committed for the 3 months. The majority of students who took the program with no prior experience finish and still need to learn while those who took the program with some prior experience are ready and able to land jobs.
There is a weekly session with a career person but once the program ends, aside from some shared leads, you feel like you’re on your own in the job search. Which can be intimidating when you’re trying to land that first job as a developer and you see the job posts which make you feel like you're not qualified for the job.
I have no regrets about taking WDI but I also wish I would’ve known what I now do. GA can be a great experience but depending upon your learning style and needs it might not be best for everyone. There’s no way I would have the knowledge I gained in the 3 months if I was learning on my own but learning more about other bootcamps, I can think of at least one that would’ve better suited my learning style and needs.
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General Assembly costs around $16,450. On the lower end, some General Assembly courses like Visual Design (Short Course) cost $3,500.
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General Assembly offers courses like 1. Data Science Bootcamp (Full Time), 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Full Time), 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Part Time), 3. User Experience Design Bootcamp (Full Time) and 13 more.
Where does General Assembly have campuses?
General Assembly has in-person campuses in London, New York City, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney. General Assembly also has a remote classroom so students can learn online.
Is General Assembly worth it?
The data says yes! General Assembly reports a 84% graduation rate, and 95% of General Assembly alumni are employed. The data says yes! In 2021, General Assembly reported a 82% graduation rate, a median salary of , and N/A of General Assembly alumni are employed.
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